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• Should "on Saturday last" be "last saturday"?--Gilderien Talk|Contribs 18:07, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

• Aside from the fact that weekdays are capitalised by convention, I don't see a (semantic) distinction. Skomorokh 18:20, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

• (sorry, "last Saturday") I thought that "last Saturday" was more conventionally regarded as correct.--Gilderien Talk|Contribs 20:17, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

• I noticed that too. It's not a big deal, but that sort of intentional reversal can be rather jarring. I don't think that Gilderien intended this to be any sort of "gotcha", but more constructive criticism or an attempt to point out what could be a mistake. Trying to deflect by talking about capitalization in what is a conversational setting (this talk page) isn't exactly collegial or constructive.
  — V = IR (Talk • Contribs) 06:51, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

• Ohms law, why don't you tone it down? Skomorokh intended nothing negative, but your comment has an irritable sense to it—the very opposite of the collegial and the constructive you mention. Tony (talk)
• You read my mind.--Gilderien Talk|Contribs 17:13, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

• The German way to solve funding: paid-editing + press media bashing + strong chapter to manage the own funds + censorship to avoid discussions. Everybody able to read German is welcome to dig into one of the most inspiring processes. Diffs: Personal Viewpoint summarised, Keep the press out I, Keep the press out II, Censorship, Marvin Oppong on Daimler--95.21.163.176 (talk) 20:56, 16 March 2012 (UTC) (P.S.: No problem to prepare an article for The Signpost on that, if somebody is willing to contribute to assure standards. Alternative proposal exists in my summarization: an invitation... Shoot the messenger if you can't stand the news I, Shoot the messenger II, End of Story. PPS: The IP-Range of my provider is blocked by a secret filter. There is no official log-entry for this as it has to be at least in the German Wikipedia... Great.)